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A stone in a well is not lost.
A stone in a well is not lost.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Cities seldome change Religion only.
Cities seldome change Religion only.
Covetousnesse breaks the bag.
Covetousnesse breaks the bag.
